The National tribune., 1887-05-26
HOLD THE FoRTI"
Comrade FraRksnberry Does Not Yield HIS Posi-
fion-

EDITOR NATIONAL tribune: In your issue
of Feb. 10. 1857 Comrade h. A. Jackson. late Of
the Signal Corps. says: "W VIM. III. Sherry sent
that dispatch, Comrade FFankenberry aud
Lieut.. Fish to the contrary notwithstanding"
Well, we viii see about that fact. and so viii
examine the testimony by which COmrade
Jackson assumes TO prove his position. II the
testimony is true the fact is true but If the tes-
timony is false all is false. he says Cen Sher-
man came up on the mountain (Kenesayv} on
the 4th Of October, 1864. and ask cd about GET
ting dispatch to AlatOoha. and gives, as ne
| says, almost verbatim the dispatch:
HEADQUARTERS TENSEssEE ARMy,
/ KESEsNw MOUNrAIS, Ca, Oct. a 1854
I Official To Gen. j. NJ. Corse. Rome. Ca. by
signals TO Allatoona thence by telegraph: You VIII
reinforce AliatoOna with one brigade. and hold the
works at ali hazards. ". II. SHERMAN.
Now, IL all the above is true. then much Of
I history and many facts are not true; but il
/ part is not trle, then none is true.
I When and where did Gen. W. T. Sherman
/ ever say, Headquarters Tennessee Army?
/ He often said and wrote a" Headquarters
Army Of the Tennessee before March, Is6i
/ but not after that date. In March, Iotsl Gen.
l W. i. Sherman was made Commander 0f tho
armies Of the Military Division Of the Hissis-
/ sippi, and headed and dated his letters orders
I aud dispatches. Headquarters Military Dlvis-
I ion Of the Mississippi" from the day he took
command in March, 1864. till the end Of the
l war IN ls65. Need l cite the many histories iu
/ proof 70 comrades who read 10 know2 In Oc-
t0ber. 1864, Gen. O. o. Howard commanded the
Army Of the Tennessee, and 50 headed bis or
dcrs and dispatches, but Gen. Howard was not
ON kenesaw Oct 4.
I But was there q Tennessee Army? Yes; and
one Gen. J. y. Hood, a rebel, commanded 1t, and
! headed bis dispatches Headquarters Tennes-
see Army" Was f. A. Jackson on the other
| side2 III not, how will he explain his "almOst
verbatim disPatch2" Jackson says ms "a-
most " dispatch was sent at N a. m. Oct g. and
that Gen. sherman was on keneSaw ar that
time. Gen. Sherman says he did not reach
kenesaw Till the morning Of Oct. ,. ls6l viii
any one say w. L. sherman does not know Of
this?
Jackson says at 9 p. m. same day-Oet. 4-
Gen. Corse sent a reply 70 ms Jaeksons q" al
most" saying be was in ALTOONA aud would
endeavOr to hold the works. But sherman and
Corse and history all say Gen. COrse did not
reach AllatOOna till I a. IN. Oct. . Who knows
best, Gen. Sherman, COrse, and history or Jack
son?
Now, again. say most positively thar no
other Signal Corps parties were on Ri keue-
saw Mountain Oct. 4 and ). l-6l and Ia active
duty, except the detachments with which Lieut.
Fish, Army of the Tennessee, and Lieut.. Con-
nelly, Army Of the Cumberland. were con-
neeted, and that no signal men occupied the
cheap, six-by-eight hut" except the de-
taehments referred TO above TIL after the
ing of Oct. Kenesaw became an imfor-
, tant station. Gen. Sherman was On the
mountain much Of bis time and from
its commanding nights sent his orders for
the movements Of his different army corps.
and also received the reports of the movements
, of Hoods army and of the Union forces and
: to assist In the work Of - Flag and f0rca."
; Other signal officers and men came % kenesaw
! ! and n0bly helped in our work. and about
, the oth OF October Sherry and his men. and
) Jackson, too, i suppose. came to kenesaw, az
/ least four davs too late % send the famous
message These men not to blame for not
getting there sooner; they we're not sooner
ordered there.
am not aware that the Signal Corps Of the
I | Army Of the Tennessee were any better armed
than the men Of the Army OF the Cumberland
: or of the Ohio. / am sure / had a revolver
e and Spencer earbine and also. when I was
with the cavalry. sword. The Signal Corps
men Of the Army Of the Cumberland also went
h on the pieket-lne We thought thar was so
common duty that no one even ever thought 70
I write it up We also did our own cooking AMI
slept on the cold and wet ground, as the case
4 might be-
But C0mrade Jackson. allow me 10 say. be
U sure and tell J. willard Brown Historian Of
Q the Signal Corps, Of all matters pertaining to
e the Kenesaw signaling, but dOn't say there
were seven signal stations on kenesaw Oct T.
because that number was not there til abodt
. the OF OtbUDtF. JachSOH ttotS bot Wiieu
!, bis party came TO KenesaW. If be knows so
much and gives such exact data. why leave out
so important a fact?
e So, now, we conclude part Of the alleged " al.
( most " dispatch is not true. and so all is not
true; and in face of all. I still have the dag
that sent the message Who is next 10 dispute
the claim2
Next / must attend TO one p x. Cover, OF
POlo H.. who says he does not believe shat
FrankenberTy was ever on kenesaw Mountain.
= But let Us see what Cover knows OF the land
I, Of kenesaw. He says be was on the mountain
at the time the famous message was sent, aud
Il that he saw from Keuesaw the signal flags 1T
a AIlatOona without the aid of glasses. Now let
e Us see. We always thought the distance was
I. Is miles, but the maps of the Engineer Corps
make the distance only IA miles. air line; the
g flags are only six feet square, and vet seen by
9 the naked eye! o, what eyes Did any other
= = man possess such great optical powers? Why
does be not get position in the Lick Observa-
a tory and take the place Of the great telescope
2, the two glasses of which cost 3610 600? His eyes
. could tell about the inhabitants of the moon
- Why did not this man make himself known "a
the commanders Of the army during the wari
d His eyes would have been worth millions. see
e a signal flag from Kenesaw TO AllatOOua. Doe:
y y any of the Signal Corps boys believe such as
= sertiOns? No. Talk such to the marines. but
IS not TO as who were there and know the facts
Z / submit the case has not been made out.
Y was on Kenesaw. Next!-A. ID. FRANREN-
= BERRY, Co. X, 18th Pa. Cav. and Signal Corps
U. $. Army, Point Marion, Pa.
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